Английский язык с Конаном-варваром

"The demon isn't going to get Tiberias' head if I can help it," he growled. "We'll carry the body into the fort. It isn't more than three miles. I never liked the fat fool, but we can't have Pictish devils making so cursed free with white men's heads." The Picts were a white race, though swarthy, but the border men never spoke of them as such.

Balthus took the rear end of the litter (Балтус взял задний конец носилок), onto which Conan unceremoniously dumped the unfortunate merchant (на которые Конан бесцеремонно свалил неудачливого купца), and they moved on down the trail as swiftly as possible (и они двинулись дальше по тропе, так быстро, как можно = как можно быстрее). Conan made no more noise laden with their grim burden than he had made when unencumbered (Конан производил не больше шума, нагруженный их мрачной ношей, чем он производил, когда /был/ необремененным; to encumber — загромождать; задерживать, затруднять). He had made a loop with the merchant's belt at the end of the poles (он сделал петлю с = из пояса купца на конце шестов), and was carrying his share of the load with one hand (и нес свою часть груза одной рукой), while the other gripped his naked broadsword (в то время как другая сжимала его обнаженный палаш), and his restless gaze roved the sinister walls about them (а его беспокойный взгляд блуждал /по/ мрачным стенам вокруг них; to rove — блуждать, скитаться). The shadows were thickening (тени темнели). A darkening blue mist blurred the outlines of the foliage (темнеющая синяя дымка размыла контуры листвы). The forest deepened in the twilight, became a blue haunt of mystery sheltering unguessed things (лес потемнел в сумерках, стал синим прибежищем тайны, дающей приют неведомым тварям; to shelter — давать приют / прибежище, приютить, укрывать).

share [], load [lud], sinister ['snst]

Balthus took the rear end of the litter, onto which Conan unceremoniously dumped the unfortunate merchant, and they moved on down the trail as swiftly as possible. Conan made no more noise laden with their grim burden than he had made when unencumbered. He had made a loop with the merchant's belt at the end of the poles, and was carrying his share of the load with one hand, while the other gripped his naked broadsword, and his restless gaze roved the sinister walls about them. The shadows were thickening. A darkening blue mist blurred the outlines of the foliage. The forest deepened in the twilight, became a blue haunt of mystery sheltering unguessed things.

They had covered more than a mile, and the muscles in Balthus' sturdy arms were beginning to ache a little (они покрыли больше, чем милю = прошли более мили, и мускулы в = на крепких руках Балтуса начинали болеть немного = побаливать), when a cry rang shuddering from the woods whose blue shadows were deepening into purple (когда раздался, бросая в дрожь, крик из леса, чьи синие тени = синие тени которого темнели /переходя/ в фиолетовые).

Conan started convulsively (Конан конвульсивно вздрогнул), and Balthus almost let go the poles (а Балтус почти = чуть не выпустил: «позволил уйти» шесты).

sturdy ['st: d], ache [ek], whose [hu: z]

They had covered more than a mile, and the muscles in Balthus' sturdy arms were beginning to ache a little, when a cry rang shuddering from the woods whose blue shadows were deepening into purple.

Conan started convulsively, and Balthus almost let go the poles.

"A woman!" cried the younger man (женщина! — крикнул более молодой мужчина). "Great Mitra, a woman cried out then (великий Митра, женщина крикнула тогда)!"

"A settler's wife straying in the woods," snarled Conan, setting down his end of the litter (жена поселенца блуждает = заблудилась в лесу, — прорычал Конан, ставя вниз = опуская свой конец носилок). "Looking for a cow, probably, and — stay here (ищущая = ищет корову, возможно, и — останься здесь; to look for — искать)!"

He dived like a hunting wolf into the leafy wall (он нырнул, как охотящийся волк, в лиственную стену). Balthus' hair bristled (волосы Балтуса встали дыбом).

"Stay here alone with this corpse and a devil hiding in the woods?" he yelped (остаться здесь одному с этим трупом и нечистью, скрывающейся в лесу? — завопил он). "I'm coming with you (я иду с тобой)!"

then [den], cow [kau], yelp [jelp]

"A woman!" cried the younger man. "Great Mitra, a woman cried out then!"

"A settler's wife straying in the woods," snarled Conan, setting down his end of the litter. "Looking for a cow, probably, and — stay here!"

He dived like a hunting wolf into the leafy wall. Balthus' hair bristled.

"Stay here alone with this corpse and a devil hiding in the woods?" he yelped. "I'm coming with you!"